Measures

I liavr a clninty cup of glaBs; It íh not graven by a line; TIk beauty is itn fríiÜonceB; A baliy'e hand might crueh it fino. I gave a man k driuk from it, Ono tlay, a draught of water cold. lío took it like a woiuan's hand, I ii revércntj luving, lingeriug liold. He hcld it up in keen lelightf Gazed on lis tcxture rarc and fine; " surh íílnss as tliie,1' he raplurous naid, "Gives water all the gracc of win." Anothcr day, anoilier man Sat eatiuR, drii kiug at niy board: Into tho dainty, jecrlcuK glMB, A pecricfí wiue for liim I pourecl. He drank it at a swallow down; With amothered wrath I wcll-nigh burst. Nor winc nor glasé wan aughtto hini, öothat he quenchcd his boorinh thiret. "Ah me !" I said, " to him that hath, All things on earth tbcir tribute bring; From hüu that hath not, earth takesback, And leaves him bORffarod, thoitgh a king," -Scribiwrfvr Jtrft,